Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > MJ Ray wrote: > > 2. Because we like using a network that spent donations on an oper's > > mobile phone bill. > > Could you elaborate?
That oper's gone, may he rest in peace, but for information: "According to the immaculately kept records of the fund, a month later the fund's trustee (a Mr Levin) decided to pay Rob Levin's $228.36 mobile phone bill. From that point the records end. However, when Mr Levin left his job at Levin & Associates in his home town of Houston, Texas in May 2002, he decided for second time that the network needed a full-time staffer. Unfortunately, other members of the community began to grow angry at its new direction, especially after Mr Levin mass mailed other communities across the Internet under the Open Projects name asking for money." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/ As to UK-driven: in August 2008, the PDPC incorporated as an English CLG, but does not seem to state its company number or registered office address on its freenode website (isn't that a legal requirement on a site where you're soliciting donations?), MOTDs or WHOIS entries. It doesn't even own its pdpc.org.uk domain name. PDPC is not a charity - why donate to a mismanaged private company? Your choice, of course. -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
